Hearing this appeal to their politeness pronounced in a female voice, they interrupted their conversation to look at the speaker.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The few hours for rest he spent hewing and hacking with his blunt knife, never speaking, until his watch came again,—working at one figure for months, and, when it was finished, breaking it to pieces perhaps, in a fit of disappointment.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

“Ride over to Prince Peter Ivánovich and find out about it exactly,” he said to one of his adjutants, and then turned to the Duke of Württemberg who was standing behind him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The next thing is to translate the proposed Premisses into abstract form, as follows:— “No x are m′ ; All m are y ”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

At the dedication exercises in June of that year, the following message from the President of the United States was read: The dedication of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is a further gesture of the good will that has so long blessed our relations with our Canadian neighbors, and I am gratified by the hope and the faith that it will forever be an appropriate symbol of permanent peace and friendship.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

An optional flat-rate pricing plan (the Standard Pricing plan) is available for US$8.95 per month.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

If once we be in love, young or old, though our teeth shake in our heads, like virginal jacks, or stand parallel asunder like the arches of a bridge, there is no remedy, we must dance trenchmore for a need, over tables, chairs, and stools, &c. And princum prancum is a fine dance.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Varvara Petrovna pronounced in a firm though low voice, with blanched lips.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It involved much more than just submitting some documents that he could probably prepare in a few days' leave, although it would have been great temerity to ask for time off from the bank just at that time, it was a whole trial and there was no way of seeing how long it might last.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

A band of mermaids carried the canoe with exquisite management through the shallows and over the breakers, and poor Popanilla in a few minutes found himself out at sea.
— from The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Strain over the fish and serve. PICKLED PIKE Draw and clean a pike, put into a fish-kettle, cover with Claret, add three bay-leaves, and simmer until tender.
— from How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed

The larva which has undergone this painful process is at first extremely weak: all its parts are soft and tender; even the corneous ones, as the head and the legs, are then scarcely more than membranous, and are all bathed with a fluid, which, before the moult, intervenes between the two skins, and facilitates their separation [482] : and it is only after some hours , or in some cases even days , during which it lies without motion, that this humidity evaporates, all its parts become consolidated, and it recovers its strength sufficiently to betake itself to its wonted food.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

When a car came, Milly got as far as the platform, pronounced it a "filthy box," which it probably was, and made the conductor let her off.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

Chapel, usually tedious, was not long enough that morning, and the psalms, the lesson, the hymns, and the prayers passed in a flash.
— from David Blaize by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

In some cases the money is refunded, but in most cases the agent becomes the owner of the property by foreclosure; and the poor peasants in a few months find
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

He has also prepared primers in Arabic for the Moros of Mindanao and the Sulu Islands.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

The President himself admits, in his message at the opening of the session, that those laws contemplate a present possession in a foreign Power ; but he further says, they contemplate an eventual possession by the United States.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress